Opinion

Courts in Israel have developed it beyond the confines of absurdity The political turmoil in Israel came to a climax last week when its parliament, the Knesset, passed a controversial ...

A COUPLE of weeks ago the “internationally-acclaimed, award-winning Cypriot artist Alexia” performed her “conceptual live-arts culturalwork (sic) Kypris” in the street between the Cyprus museum and what was once called ...

The visit of Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Cyprus, scheduled for last Wednesday but cancelled because of the fires raging across the country, will now take place on Monday. ...

By Ioannis Tirkides A world war, especially on European soil, is unthinkable but raises legitimate concerns. The war in Ukraine has now dragged on for a year and a half, ...

After the meeting of President Nikos Christodoulides with the members of the Education Service Commission, for the submission of its annual report, the government spokesman announced the commencement in September ...

Long before Europe faced its debt crisis, Sweden struggled through its own 1990s property crash. Now the country is preparing to use an old playbook to contain its problems. Sweden ...

This letter is coming from California which is big both in terms of population (40 million) and land area (425 thousand square kilometres, compared to the area of Cyprus, which is less ...

Talking about the council of ministers’ scheme for the installation of photovoltaics (PV), Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said it would be administered by the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC). Although ...

By Raquel Peel Text messages showing actor Jonah Hill asking his ex-girlfriend Sarah Brady to consider a dot point list of relationship “boundaries” have sparked an important conversation. Two different ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met the members of the ‘opinion-giving Council’ on Wednesday with whom he had a constructive discussion about its roles and responsibilities. After the meeting, government spokesman Konstantinos ...

THE WAYS THINGS ARE Maari, hyperventilating, called from her retreat on Troodos. She’d been in her garden having a smoke, when a soundless, fluid presence passed through her plants ...

There is little doubt that President Nikos Christodoulides’ government is beholden to the unions. The public support offered him by the Sek union federation in the elections was bound to ...

Pictures of taxi drivers, sitting on chairs chatting outside the exit of the Larnaca airport, caused a big stir after they were posted on social media. Everyone slammed the thoughtless ...

The best chance since 2013 that Aphrodite may actually resurface – maybe One of our big problems is that governments often talk about developing our gasfields as if they are in full ...

I am becoming increasingly alarmed at the continued use of fireworks every day by stupid, irresponsible people, especially during this heatwave when the ground everywhere is so dry. It doesn’...

An enforceable tax on wealth, a serious clampdown on tax evasion, combatting the public sector payroll and improving the minimum pay system are all crucial Income inequalities are dominated by ...

While the wheelchairs are rolling over the Cyprus Mail pages this week, in Larnaca we just putter along the sidewalks without dropped curbs. Often cars block them where they exist – ...

“Europe is threatened by anti-European mobs who destroy police stations, burn libraries and stab babies,” explained Santiago Abascal, the leader of Spain’s far-right Vox Party and the bogeyman in ...

By Victoria Cooper Why, in a country of more than 330 million people, does it appear that Americans will have to choose between Joe Biden or Donald Trump at the 2024 US ...

Those songs of summer say it best These days the heat of the summer months is too much for anyone to venture out while the Sun beats down at temperatures ...

THE EUROASIA Interconnector that will link our electricity grid with that of Israel and Greece has run out of funds and the project promoter is seeking assistance from the state ...

We have been hearing about the EuroAsia Interconnector that will connect Cyprus to the power grids of Israel and Greece via submarine power cable, for more than 10 years. A project ...

By Maria Demertzis For all the problems and crises that the EU has gone through in the past 15 years, immigration is one that still proves difficult to address. It cannot ...

The mystery Turkish businessman who announced in April that he had purchased three hotels in the fenced off area of Varosha, was back in the news this week, having told ...